New details surrounding Kendrick Lamar‘s debut feature film have been revealed. According to HypeBeast, the movie is titled Whitney Springs, and will premiere on Paramount+ on July 11, 2025. The project stars Chloe East and Celeste Octavia and is produced by the Grammy-winning rapper and his pgLang partner Dave Free, with South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
“We’re doing a movie with Kendrick, with Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free and their company,” explained Parker last year, the outlet noted. “And we’re working on it and hopefully come out July 4 weekend opposite Jurassic Park, which is pretty funny.”
He continued, “[Kendrick Lamar is] very involved. And Dave Free is very involved. Every day they are working on it.”
Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free, winner of the Record of The Year award for “Not Like Us”, pose in the press room during the 67th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
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The film was first announced in January 2022 and described as a live-action comedy that will “depict the past and present coming to a head when a young Black man, who is interning as a slave re-enactor at a living history museum, discovers that his white girlfriend’s ancestors once owned his.”
According to Variety, the film was written by Vernon Chatman, who also works on South Park as a writer, producer, and voice actor.
“This script is one of the funniest and most original scripts we’ve ever read and it’s certain to create some fireworks,” shared Paramount CEO Brian Robbins.
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